Okay, admittedly we once had a really bad experience with an amateurish pop-up dinner that has colored our view of them, probably for the rest of time. But tonight’s Eat, Drink, Love totally proves why they’re terrible in general with hard evidence, and not just feelings. They are massively tricky to pull off, almost always performed under a time crunch, and unspeakably difficult to manage if you aren’t used to working in a restaurant full-time.

Nina Clemente has a pop-portunity fall into her lap with just four days to make it happen, and so she invites the girls to come and give notes on a test run. These are their stories. (You can catch tonight’s Eat, Drink, Love at 7pm ET on Bravo.